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Write the (concatenated) contents of the specified registers to the stdin
stream of the current window. The register ‘.’ is treated as the
paste buffer. If no parameter is specified the user is prompted to enter a
single register. The paste buffer can be filled with the
copy, history and readbuf commands.
Other registers can be filled with the register, readreg and
paste commands.
If paste is called with a second argument, the contents of the specified
registers is pasted into the named destination register rather than
the window. If ‘.’ is used as the second argument, the display’s paste
buffer is the destination.
Note, that paste uses a wide variety of resources: Usually both, a
current window and a current display are required. But whenever a second
argument is specified no current window is needed. When the source specification
only contains registers (not the paste buffer) then there need not be a current
display (terminal attached), as the registers are a global resource. The
paste buffer exists once for every user.
(none)
Stuff the string string in the input buffer of the current window.
This is like the paste command, but with much less overhead.
Without a parameter, screen will prompt for a string to stuff.
You cannot paste large buffers with the stuff command. It is most
useful for key bindings. See Bindkey.
Tell screen to include font information in the paste buffer. The default is not to do so. This command is especially useful for multi character fonts like kanji.
(none)
Define the speed text is inserted in the current window by the paste
command. If the slowpaste value is nonzero text is written character by
character.
screen will pause for msec milliseconds after each write
to allow the application to process the input. only use slowpaste if
your underlying system exposes flow control problems while pasting large
amounts of text.
defslowpaste specifies the default for new windows.
(none)
Does one of two things, dependent on number of arguments: with zero or one
arguments it duplicates the paste buffer contents into the register specified
or entered at the prompt. With two arguments it reads the contents of the named
file into the register, just as readbuf reads the screen-exchange file
into the paste buffer.
You can tell screen the encoding of the file via the -e option.
The following example will paste the system’s password file into
the screen window (using register p, where a copy remains):
C-a : readreg p /etc/passwd C-a : paste p
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